Team Philippines defends throne, claims gold at the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang 31st SEA Games

HANOI, 20 May – Team Philippines, also known as SIBOL Mobile Legends: Bang Bang team, retains its throne in the 31st SEA Games. SIBOL MLBB dismantled Team Indonesia in a best-of-five (BO5) series, ending the match with a 3-1 score.

The SIBOL MLBB lineup is composed of veteran players from Blacklist International, namely Johnmar "PHI VILLALUNA" Villaluna as team captain, together with Danerie "PHI DEL ROSARIO" Del Rosario, Salic "Hadji" Imam, and Dexter "PHI ALABA" Alaba. Amateur players Kyle "PHI SOTO" Soto, Howard "PHI GONZALES" Gonzales, and Russel "PHI USI" Usi, who have never competed in any Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional Leagues or tournaments, were part of the winning roster.

According to Esports Charts, the 31st SEA Games MLBB tournament reached a new peak-concurrent viewership of 2.2 million with an average of 610,000 viewers.

In 2019, the Philippines and Indonesia were also the finalists during the 30th SEA Games Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, with the Philippines hailed as the champions with a 3:2 match score.

Rank	Country	Players
GOLD	Philippines	Johnmar “PHI VILLALUNA” Villaluna, Danerie “PHI DEL ROSARIO” Del Rosario, Salic “Hadji” Imam, and Dexter “PHI ALABA” Alaba, Kyle “PHI SOTO” Soto, Howard “PHI GONZALES" Gonzales, and Russel “PHI USI” Usi. Kristoffer “PHI RICAPLAZA” Ricaplaza and Aniel “PHI JIANDANI” Jiandani were coaching the team.
SILVER	Indonesia	Albert Neilsen "INA Alberttt" Iskandar, Gilang "INA SANZ", Calvin "INA VYN", and Rivaldi "INA R7" Fatah from RRQ Hoshi, Calvin "INA CW" Winata, and Nicky Fernando "INA Kiboy" Pontonuwu from ONIC Esports, and Ihsan Besari "INA Luminaire" Kusudana from EVOS Legends. The team is trained and guided by Coach Chen Jui "INA James" Teng.
BRONZE	Singapore	Chong "SGP Soul" Ru Chyi, Basil' "SGP Seilah" Lim, Remas "SGP Remaniscent" Ker, Akihiro "SGP JPL" Furusawa, and Adam "SGP Adammir" Chong Daryl "SGP Youngin" Ng is the team's coach.

Customized Hotbox
#theworldisyourdiningroom

Proudly Pinoy made!

Pull the string to heat. That’s the concept of Filipino innovation Hotbox Philippines which promises diners that their food will always be fresh and hot when it is time to eat.

Pinoy Innovation HOTBOX Philippines makes the world your dining room

Food deliveries always strive to bring orders piping hot, but by the time the order is brought to the customer’s doorstep, the temperature may have become tepid, which affects the texture and the flavors.

Food plays a big part in the way Filipinos bond. Having unappetizing meals not only for take-out and deliveries but also for meetings, parties, and outdoor activities take away the enjoyment of savouring that moment. Hotbox Philippines seeks to change the way Pinoys enjoy packaged meals with technology that heats up your food right at the time that you are ready to dig in, anytime and anywhere.

Romeo Joven

Hotbox Philippines partners, Fil-American TV commercial producer Romeo Joven with actors Piolo Pascual and Eric Quizon say that with their innovation, the world can be your dining room. This concept is perfect for hot meals at home when you are too busy to cook, a perfectly packed lunch for when you have that one more meeting to attend, or road trips with family and friends so you can have a hot and appetizing meal by the beach or at the hiking grounds.

“At home or in the office, we may use a microwave oven, to reheat our packed food, but the heat dries up your dish and makes it less appetizing as well as the food getting cold fast. With Hotbox’s steam technology, your food is hot within 5 minutes. There is also no rush to eat as your food continues to heat up to 30 minutes at over 80 degrees Celsius. Because of our technology, the food retains its original quality and texture. Our clients love the product because their food tastes like it is fresh from the stovetop or oven,” says Hotbox CEO Romeo Joven.

“With Hotbox, you no longer have to deal with meals that have gone cold. All you need to do is Pull, Heat, and Eat,” says Piolo. “With Hotbox, I know that even when I am busy with my tapings on location, I will be able to have hot meals to power me through my next scenes.”

Hotbox - Food set (can be customized)

The self-heating boxes are also more earth-friendly because there is less plastic waste and there is no need to use electricity for a microwave. This makes it a perfect on-the-go package for your meals.

Hotbox Philippines offers several Filipino and International cuisine choices in its online menu, and they can also accept orders for customized boxes to be delivered for meetings or special occasions. For more information about Hotbox Philippines, visit www.hotboxph.com or follow their Facebook and Instagram accounts @hotboxphils. #theworldisyourdiningroom

Being a Dad and a Warrior for our Child’s Health

Any father or father figure in the family, would always choose to protect his family first, especially his children. He would want to make sure that his children are safe by providing them comfort and protection from harm. Above all these, a father plays a huge role in his children’s lives, especially in health.

Aside from the care a mother gives, a father also shares the task by supporting their baby’s needs and by taking part in these health activities:

During Pregnancy

Study shows that most women with supportive partners have fewer health problems in pregnancy. The support that a father gives can be associated with positive maternal and child outcomes.

A father’s involvement during pregnancy helps in ensuring that a mother will receive her 1st-trimester prenatal care. It also helps to improve the quality of the parents' relationship to nurture and respond to their child's needs.

Baby’s health care program

Being present during doctor's appointments for vaccinations and check-ups is one way a father can play an active role in his baby's health care. Early encounters with his baby’s pediatricians may start from prenatal consultations to visitation in the newborn nursery.

Taking the time to understand what every child needs during his or her first 1000 days of life is a way of being proactive as a father. Keeping track of immunization records helps the father to be actively involved in a child's health.

Walk the talk

Most children see their fathers as role models. The stronger your relationship with your child, the more influence you’ll have, which could even last a lifetime. Children look to their fathers for strength, encouragement, and support. Both sons and daughters mimic their dads from a very young age. Moreover, fathers usually set the family culture and norms.

That’s why whatever a father believes in can influence the upbringing of a child. Let your kids know you also got vaccinated as recommended by your doctor. As a dad, you can be a good example in the family to support immunization. With the ongoing battle against COVID-19, we can support the current effort for herd immunity by encouraging our whole family to #CallTheShots.

Call the Shots PH is an awareness campaign to protect expectant parents and their children from vaccine-preventable diseases and is brought by MSD in the Philippines. Visit Call The Shots PH FB page (https://www.facebook.com/CallTheShotsPH) to get latest updates on immunization.

Sen. Ping Lacson: The most qualified, the most competent, the most experienced candidate.

Lacson stands by his record and experience

Senator Panfilo “Ping” has once again proven he is truly the corruption-buster “Mr. Clean” he is touted to be. In recent articles, the presidential candidate known for his strong anti-corruption stance, was recently vindicated for previous crimes he was unjustly accused of during the Arroyo administration. No less than former President Sen. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, in her recently launched memoir entitled “Deus Ex Machina,” admitted that the accusations against Sen Lacson were fake.

“The information that was made public could not be substantiated,” GMA wrote in her memoir.

Years later, Marquez recanted accusations against Sen Lacson and apologized. Corpus also issued a publicly televised apology to Lacson for falsely accusing the senator.

True to form, the magnanimous Lacson did not hurl vindictive comments against his accusers. Instead, he tweeted a forgiving message to his former detractor. “Late is always better than never. To ex-PGMA’s credit, she has the decency and courage to admit that she publicly and unjustly accused me of various crimes based of false information. Whatever, I have already forgiven her a long time ago.”

Even in the thick of the present presidential election, Lacson maintains his nonbelligerent stance, preferring not to say anything about the other candidates wanting to be President of the Philippines because he is also running for the position.

Sen Lacson being interviewed by host Boy Abunda

In his recent interview session with Boy Abunda for the television personality’s series 2022 Presidential One-on-One Interviews, Lacson, one of five presidential candidates who were invited to the show, chose to talk instead about what made him best suited for the highest position in the Philippines.

“I am the most qualified, the most competent, the most experienced (candidate),” he told Abunda matter-of-factly without mentioning any of his rivals.

The candidate said it was time for voters to be discerning, to realize that politics was not entertainment and they should not be influenced by dole-outs.

In his campaign sorties, a singing and dancing Lacson would certainly not be on the program. “I won’t sacrifice authenticity,” he said, and would not do anything that had nothing to do with the country’s problems.

“The number one problem is the government, so the solution is the government- good, honest governance,” he said.

Lacson stressed, “Tough problems need tough solutions from the country’s top leaders.” His goal, if elected president, was to leave the country better off than when he started and see a greater respect for government officials.

Although he acknowledged that the qualifications for presidential candidates were so much simpler than those required of job applicants, the senator also pointed out that college degrees do not guarantee outstanding public service.

“Maraming may PhD na mas magaling magnakaw kaysa magsilbi sa bayan (there are many people with doctoral degrees who are very skilled in stealing public funds than in serving the country),” he said

He would not oppose though some changes in the qualifications, although it would require a constitutional amendment. The job was demanding, he pointed out, and it called for skills in handling crises like the still ongoing corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.

Lacson said he would lead by example if he were elected president. He recalled that he was able to minimize graft and corruption in the Philippine National Police when he was its chief by consistently showing he could not be bribed. It was his leadership by example, he said, that drastically reduced, if not totally eliminated, corruption in the police establishment.

As a senator, he did not collect the pork barrel, or extra funds allocated to legislators ostensibly to finance pet projects. He was able to save the country millions of pesos by carefully and thoroughly reviewing every proposed annual budget of the government, he said.

Lacson would push for digitization and automation in government as president so there would be no human intervention. He said, “Human intervention always resulted in corruption.”

Lacson supported the resumption of mining in the country, “a major industry” of the Philippines, but it should be sustainable and responsible. “It must be data-driven and science-based.”

However, he also expressed concern that corruption would create the same problems as before. “Corruption lets violators get away (with their crimes). Palakasan (pull or influence) allowed people with the right connections to do as they please.”

Lacson’s vice presidential candidate is Senate President Vicente “Tito” C. Sotto III.

For more info on Ping Lacson, follow https://www.facebook.com/PingLacsonOfficial.

How the Size of Your House Affects Your Budget

It’s time to buy a home, and you have all your financials in order. You have an idea of what your dream house looks like, but does that image fall in line with how much you can actually afford in the way of buying a home?

Calculate to Check

How much house you can afford depends on the relationship between your income and mortgage.

Using a house payment calculator will take in many factors to determine what you can afford to pay a month, such as monthly income, monthly debt payments, and credit score.

Utilizing a tool like this allows you to make adjustments and play with numbers to plainly see what price range will not stretch you thin financially.

Look At Your Debts

If you want to afford a bigger house, take a look at your debt-to-income ratio as that affects affordability. This number is your total monthly debt payments divided by your gross monthly income before tax.

Lenders often use the 28/36 rule as a sign of a healthy DTI. This means you won’t spend more than 28% of your gross monthly income on mortgage payments and no more than 36% on total debt payments.

If your DTI is higher than the 28/36 rule, some lenders may still approve you for a loan. However, they can charge higher interest rates and add extra fees like mortgage insurance to protect themselves in the event you default on the loan.

A Good Rule of Thumb

One rule often cited is the 25% rule, that you should never spend more than 25% of your monthly take-home pay (after taxes) on monthly mortgage payments.

This percentage includes principal, interest, property taxes, home insurance, private mortgage insurance, and homeowners association fees, if applicable. With larger homes come other larger bills to consider.

Maintenance is More Costly

Bigger homes will require more upkeep, as there are more opportunities for something needing repair. More than one bathroom heightens the likelihood of burst pipes, a larger lawn will call for more in-depth landscaping needs in terms of frequency and time it takes for routine care.

Though a larger home provides more of living space, it calls for more money to be allocated to care for that living space.

Utilities are Higher

Heating a larger home will take much more power than heating a smaller one. Likewise, paying for water and electricity to flow to a larger amount of rooms ups utility bills.

Be sure you know the typical utility costs for any home you’re looking for, and how they vary by season. You’ll want to factor these costs into your monthly budget.

Property Tax will Differ

Property taxes are not necessarily based on the square footage of your home directly, but rather on the market value of the home.

A larger home will garner a higher market value, and therefore higher property taxes. The market value is determined by a government assessment or appraisal of the worth of the property that is based on a variety of factors like design characteristics, amenities, appliances, and square footage.

UNIQLO LifeWear Magazine

UNIQLO Launches Its 2022 Spring/Summer LifeWear Collection

Japanese global apparel retailer, UNIQLO, shows us the joys of clothing as it presents its Spring/Summer collection for 2022. The collection provides fresh, comfortable, functional, and stylish pieces perfect for the season, whether one is in the city, nature, at home, or the seaside.

THE JOYS OF CLOTHING

For this season, UNIQLO focuses on the simple joys that come to life when people and clothes find each other. In its latest lineup, there’s a blazer or dress that captures modern life in the city, a relaxing and roomy pair of shorts for that trip to the great outdoors, and breezy linens and madras shirts in lively colors that can be worn at the beach. UNIQLO presents four sub-themes this season and what ties all these together is that they bring happiness and comfort to its wearer during these sunny days.

The Joys of Skyline

City-dwellers enjoy the convenience of a cosmopolitan lifestyle: a neighborhood cafe with friendly baristas, a deli selling artisanal cheeses, and restaurants serving farm-to-table food. This urban way of life needs contemporary and modern clothes that can be worn at work or off-duty.

The Joys of Landscape

Relish life off the grid, the rustling of the wind in the trees and the crunching of leaves under the shoes, with colors and textures that blend in with the scenery of nature.

The Joys of Imagination

Art and sophisticated designs stir the senses. Imaginations are supposed to wander and enter brilliant new worlds so UNIQLO found inspiration in vibrant and uplifting colors.

The Joys of Sun and Seaside

An afternoon by the beach while soaking in the sun and feeling the breeze calls for natural textures, linen fabric, and clothes that drape effortlessly over the body. These are comfortable to wear and more importantly, easy to shed off when it’s time for a dip.

UNIQLO U

This season’s collection for UNIQLO U aims to support the daily rhythm of all sorts of lifestyles. Artistic director Christophe Lemaire and the design team in Paris produced relaxed, loose-fitting, and clean silhouettes for the ultimate in comfort.

This is also reflected in the palette, featuring earth tones in brown, khaki, and olive. Warm, neutral colors, such as faded tones of orange and green, and military blue also make an appearance. A kids’ collection will be offered again this season.

UT

For this season, UNIQLO’s exciting range of t-shirts inspired by art, music, movies, manga, and other elements of culture, UT promises a diverse range of interests, including film, art, and photography.

A highlight this season is a line of monochromatic Mickey Mouse art by Joshua Vides. The artist is known for his immersive installations and products that embody the essence of pop art. Next is the collection in collaboration with Magnum Photos, a cooperative that has visually documented most of the world's major events and personalities since the 1930s. The collection includes iconic photographs shot by Alec Soth, Eli Reed, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Elliott Erwitt, and Martin Parr.

These are accompanied by a collection that features Keith Haring’s debut exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York City in 1982. Joining Haring are collections showcasing the art of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

COLLABORATIONS

Apart from the sub-themes, UNIQLO is offering collaborations that reflect different aesthetics, but are all grounded by joy:

Hana Tajima

Hana Tajima returns to create UNIQLO’s first collection dedicated to dresses. This season, the New York-based fashion designer created garments that are made to be lived in, with understated yet iconic styles.

The collection features deep greens and blues inspired by nature and flower patterns found in Tajima’s garden. These patterns can also be found on hand-drawn scarves.

Inès de la Fressange

Inès De la Fressange turns to the colorful Moroccan city of Marrakesh in creating this season’s collection. The designer crafted high-quality and elegant yet casual items that liberally use cotton, linen, and silk.

The womenswear lineup is infused with menswear elements in natural colors and warm accents in reds, oranges, and pinks. The collection stays true to de la Fressange’s DNA of effortless chic that is truly French, truly Inès.

JW Anderson

Jonathan Anderson, who is never far from the sea, was inspired by sailing and the culture of seaside towns and ports when developing this collection. The sapphire blues of the sea, the soft browns of seashores, and the calming beiges of chalk cliffs are combined with red, green, and blue elements, reminiscent of maritime signal flags.

The nautical narrative is expressed through rope details, performance fabrics, patchwork, and asymmetrical elements.

UNIQLO’s 2022 Spring/Summer collection will be available starting February in all stores nationwide.

For more updates, please visit UNIQLO Philippines’ social media accounts, Facebook (facebook.com/uniqlo.ph), Twitter (twitter.com/uniqloph) and Instagram (instagram.com/uniqlophofficial) and UNIQLO Philippines’ website at uniqlo.com/ph, and download the UNIQLO App.

Penguin Cafe

"Slow Service, Tiny Tips! Speedy Service, Shiny Tips!

The first thing that comes into your mind is that this happens in restaurant businesses. Well, you're right. In some scenarios, happy customers give more "tips" to the server. I love this phrase, it's so catchy and upon checking, this is a free online kid cooking game. The above shows Penguin Cafe, one of the Serving Eaters in Kids Food Gaming Collections.

Serving Eaters is a type of game help students learn attention to detail, process repetition, and simulate what it would be like to serve orders out of the kitchen or work as a waiter. The Penguin Cafe games is particularly compelling for showing how much stress servers go through as they try to balance customer demands.

Let us have some fun while learning in an interactive environment.

Have fun and learn with Culinary-related online games

Penguin Cafe lets you play a penguin on skates rushing around to serve guests and meet the daily goal. Berta, the name of the penguin will assist customers the moment they step into the shop. Assist them in going to the table, taking their orders from the list of menu, serving them, and get the payment once they're done eating and feeling full.

There is a task on each level that you must complete for you to be able to move on to the next level.

Remind your kids or students playing this game customer gratuity makes up an important portion of a waiter's livelihood. That makes it crucial for servers to maintain a positive attitude in spite of frequently dealing with overwhelming stress and demanding customers.

Take a look at how I achieved and completed this game so far.

Penguin Cafe

As you go along and pass the level, the goal increases. You need to achieve that or go beyond the target each day. There are also considerations to look out that there are hungry/irate customers affects in achieving your goal.

Penguin Cafe Shop

As your money/coins increase, you will get the chance to buy an item from the shop such as Frostblister Skates. It cost 499. Since I earned 94I, was able to buy it from the shop. There is a reason I bought this item. The Frostblister Skate will double Berta's speed with some shiny new blades designed by the finest skatesmiths of the Artctic.

There are other items available from the SHOP. You need to earn more so that you can help Berta to excel more as a server and provide better performance.

Sub-zero Woofers - Make long queues bearable with this high-quality speaker and subwoofer set.

Fancy tablecloth - Attract richer customers with the elegance and style of the newest table wear

Igloo Peruk - Swedish glare-resistant curtains designed to soothe even the grumpiest of grumps

Sir Sit-sA-Lot Chairs - "The Best in Buttocks Comfort!" a Health posterior leads to a healthy tip.

There is also an Open Restaurant game as one of the Serving Eaters categories.

Open Restaurant is an isometric restaurant game where a person must act as the Maître D', waiter, server, cashier and cleaner for a busy restaurant. This game does a great job showing how busy restaurants are and how much work servers must do between seating guests, taking orders, serving food & collecting payments.

Step by step process in Open Restaurant

Each day the restaurant has a target earnings amount. Players meeting their earnings goal move on to the next day. This game works offline but does take about 30 seconds to load on the initial play. It has a lot going on and can be overwhelming for younger children. As it is fast-paced, it is a good fit for students in sixth grade on up.

As you can see, I was able to earn as much as 6,800 USD in 5 days. I am doing great in this job.

This means that I can earn more money as long as I can reach the target earnings per day.

Open Restaurant simulation

I also found "Other Fun Food-themed Games" such as Candy Fiesta.

Candy Fiesta is a match in 3 games. This is similar to candy crush. You need to pay 3 or more similar candies and will earn points. If you're lucky enough, will get more points when there is a combo matching more than 3 candies in one hit like I did.

Candy Fiesta with 65 Moves available. You need to get scores as highest as you can to make it on the leaderboard.

Candy Fiesta is a match 3 in a row candy merging game. Make longer matches to create powerful candies which enable higher scores.

So far, I was able to get a 9X combo. And my highest score so far is 10,000 points (on a separate video)

But wait, there's more. If you're a fan of baking such as cakes, this one is for you. I tried the Idle Games - Merge Cake

Merge Cake - is a simple merging game where you acquire income-earning pastries to create better pastries that earn more. Fill out the expanding level as you unlock delicious new recipes.

Merge Cake

Grape Biscuit - this is one of the New Recipe that got after completed each level.

Merge Cake New Recipe unlocked

Each recipe has corresponding coins represented. The more coins you have, the better chances to get your desired recipe. You can get this in the SHOP.

Each completed level or each new recipe unlocked, you can get and claim coins. It will reflect all your task completed in the Achievements section

Merge Cake New Recipe Shop and Achievements

It is not late to get and dive into these online games especially this where most of us are working from home. The same with our kids who are attending online for their classes. Time to start to have fun and start learning where there are a lot of collections of online games to help familiarize our kids when it comes to food, cooking, restaurant business, and hospitality-related careers

You can check other online games by visiting these websites.

https://www.culinaryschools.org/kids-games/
https://www.culinaryschools.org/

enator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson’s Edukasyon Plus program

Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson’s Edukasyon Plus will provide free education to young people and institute a government internship program where they will receive a P5,000 monthly allowance

Lacson to reduce poverty through education

Noon, Elementarya at High School lang ang libre sa pag-aaral sa ating mga pam-publikong paaralan. Marami sa mga magulang na nagha hangad na sana hanggang Koliheyo (College) ay libre din. Marami sa Pilipino ang hindi nakakapag tapos ng pag-aaral dahil sa kawalan ng pang gastos sa pag-aaral.

Maaring ito na ang ating hinihintay! Libreng Edukasayon para sa lahat!

Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson plans to solve the country’s serious poverty problem by providing more people the opportunity to get an education.

Lacson believes that the key to solving our country’s poverty problem is education.

In his latest video, the presidential aspirant, who has battled government corruption throughout his career in public service, points out that many young people are forced to drop out of school because of the need to help their families and because being in school is proving to be a heavy financial burden. Thus, they remain mired in poverty because without a good education their prospects are limited so they often have to settle for jobs that do not pay much.

his career in public service, points out that many young people are forced to drop out of school because of the need to help their families and because being in school is proving to be a heavy financial burden. Thus, they remain mired in poverty because without a good education their prospects are limited so they often have to settle for jobs that do not pay much.

Lacson to launch “Edukasyon Plus” program to help students focus on their studies.

He will launch an innovative Edukasyon Plus program if elected President that will provide free education and institute a government internship program. Each family will receive a P5,000 monthly allowance during their family members’ internship. Lacson believes that this arrangement will allow students to focus on their studies as they will not be under pressure to help their families.

“Even if education is free, young people cannot finish their studies because they have to help their families. If this vicious cycle continues, when will they be able to lift themselves from a life of poverty?” he says.

Studies show that among member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Philippines have the highest school dropout rate.

Lacson is convinced that education is the only way to give people the chance of a better future and to improve the lives of Filipinos, many, if not most, of whom still live below the poverty line. People remain mired in poverty, unable to get better-paying jobs, for lack of education, he stresses.

With Edukasyon Plus, young people can avail of free education and participate in a government internship program that will pay their families a monthly allowance. “They won’t have to choose anymore between education and work to help their families,” Lacson says. He believes the program will help many people leave behind lives of poverty.

“Edukasyon Plus is the real solution to the problem of poverty,” Lacson adds.

Lacson and his running mate, Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto, are running on the slogan “Aayusin ang gobierno, aayusin ang buhay mo.” (They will fix the government and put your life in order.)

For more info on Ping Lacson, follow https://www.facebook.com/PingLacsonOfficial.

Daddy O!